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That Should Be a Word
That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover's Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World | Lizzie Skurnick
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A whimsical compendium of creative neologisms for surviving the perils of modern life, derived from the popular New York Times Magazine feature, is complemented by tongue-in-cheek definitions and illustrations. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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BookishMarginalia
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Waiting rooms --whether at the vet's or the doc's-- are nests of dronanism, as Septimus and I can attest today. 😱👀😬

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Looks lovely or a fun book! 7y
respekt1111 I hear ya! People who talk very loudly about their personal lives in public are my favorite 🙄 7y
rabbitprincess There were people on my bus this week doing that! It was especially annoying because it was quarter to 7 a.m., which is much too early for conversation of any kind, let alone dronanism. 😑 7y
CaramelLunacy Such a good word! My significant otter coined squawkative recently for the loud and raucous variety 7y
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BookishMarginalia
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I'm gleevily slowthful by this time in the semester. #teachersofLitsy #EmbraceTheGleevil #Slowth

KarenUK Love it 💕💕💕 7y
Alfoster So glad you are liking it! We teachers are so word-nerdy (is there a word for that?)😝😝 7y
valeriegeary These are great! 7y
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The_Literary_Jedi 📚📚Logophile - a person who loves words 💚💚💚💚 these words! 7y
Posemn Hahah! Love this. 7y
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😈😈😈

B.Reader Am immediately adding to my daily verbiage 7y
literarymermaid YES!!!! 7y
DiruVamp That is fantastic! 7y
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Alfoster Hahaha! Teachers unite! And all of us who love words!!😍😍😍 7y
melbeautyandbooks 😂👏🏻 7y
BookDragonNotWorm Love it! Working on my gleevil laugh now! 7y
LauraJ Gleevil is pretty much my constant state of being. 😈 7y
Arcana So, gleefully evil, smooshed together? 7y
BookishMarginalia @B.Reader Me too! In fact, I'm gleeviling right now 😈 -- isn't it? This whole book is full of gems! @StoredFeminism @DiruVamp @melbeautyandbooks -- @Arcana Yes! Isn't it genius? 👍🏼 -- @LauraJ I have many gleevil moments 😈😁-- @BookDragonNotWorm Me too! ✅-- @Alfoster Word nerds are the best! 💕 7y
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It's been a long exhausting day grading essays (yep! that's just as 😱 as you'd imagine), and then I receive this lovely present 🎁 from @Alfoster -- just the balm to soothe my #teacherofLitsy soul! (But wait, there were a few goodies for @WanderingBookaneer too!)

Alfoster ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏 7y
saresmoore Wow, yes! And povertunity should definitely be a word. I live in an impoverished neighborhood adjacent to some of the world's wealthiest people and I've seen a LOT of povertunistic aspirations! 7y
Laura317 I bet that book is awesome! Can't wait to hear what you think. 7y
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Bookish.Heart I need to know what a choregasm is lol 7y
hwheaties I have that book! My friend gave it to me as a birthday gift last year 😃 7y
MrBook 👍🏻👏🏻 Need that book! 7y
StellarDoc Those books look like an excellent reward for getting the grading done! 7y
GabriannaLikesToRead I need that book in my life 😍😍 7y
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